Cameron cupped his face with her hands, and her touch brought him back from his maudlin thoughts. Back to the only pleasure he’d known since the day his mother had killed him.
Her arms.
“Have I lost you? You look as if you’re far away, lost in your thoughts. Should I go and leave you to them?”
“Stay with me, Cameron.”
Stay with me forever.…
How he wished for the courage to say that last bit out loud. For the courage to keep her by his side.
But he couldn’t.
He didn’t dare. It wouldn’t be fair to her, and he couldn’t bear to be the reason for anything else bad happening to her.
May the gods help him, but if Vine did force him to choose between Cameron and his brother, Muerig’s goat was the guinea. He’d offer the bastard up without hesitation—he knew that now without a doubt—and that would be ruinous for them all.
She tightened her legs around his hips, then leaned up to kiss him blind with bliss.
Kalder let her taste roll over his senses as he lost himself to her completely. Forcing his thoughts away from anything except the need he had to sample her fully, he swam with her into a cavern where he pulled her from the water to a small sandy cove so that she could breathe on her own.
Amazed, she took a second to look around the darkened underwater cave while he gently peeled his remaining clothes off.
Until he returned to her side and laid her back against the moss-covered sand. But she didn’t pull away. Instead, she ran her hands over his body, timidly exploring every inch of him. Her innocent touch reached deep inside him, setting him free of his past and soothing him in a way nothing ever had. Especially when she bit her lip and touched the most private part of him for the first time.
Cameron felt her cheeks turn red hot as she cupped him in her hand and explored his cock with her fingers. He was so velvety hard. So different from her own body. And she delighted in the look of pleasure on his face.
Feeling more powerful than ever, she ran her hands through Kalder’s short, wet hair and down his whiskered cheeks. How she loved the manly feel of him lying atop her. It was such a peculiarthing. This pressure of his body pressing against hers. Of his arms surrounding her.
She ran her feet down his legs, feeling the crisp hairs that dusted them, and reveled in the differences between their bodies. And it was then she realized just how much she did love this man. How much she treasured his rare smiles, and peculiar ways. Human or not, he was everything to her.
He was what she needed most.
This man whose kisses set her afire. Whose strong touch made her weak.
He was her heart. Her soul.
But what good was it? Really? This was all kinds of folly and she knew it.
She couldn’t stay with him.
Forgetting the fact that they were two different species, Paden would never allow it. He couldn’t stand Kalder. Or any man who came near her, for that matter.
It was hopeless, this love.
Aching with the thought and wanting him regardless, Cameron wrapped her arms around Kalder’s neck and held him tight as pain wracked her body.
“Cameron,” he rasped. “You’re strangling me.”
She loosened her grip, then buried her face against his chest and closed her eyes, wishing for things she knew could never be. She didn’t want to let him go.
You’ll have to.
But, it wasn’t fair. Not when all she wanted was to love him. Be with him.
He’s another species.And she was completely fine with it. Indeed, she was about to make love with him.…
Under the waters he called home. Her life had become the strangest of strange.
